Find Secondary Sources - Articles - BLST-231/HIST-247 African American History: Slave Trade to Reconstruction - Course Guide

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These core History databases are good places to find peer-reviewed articles.

America, History & Life (1964 to present) This link opens in a new window
Core database for the world's scholarly literature on the history and culture of the United States and Canada.
Historical Abstracts with Full Text (1955 to present) This link opens in a new window
Core database for scholarly literature about world history since 1450 (excluding the United States and Canada).

JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Full-text backfiles of over two thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Alumni access
Project Muse This link opens in a new window
Online database of more than 200 journals from nonprofit publishers. Alumni access
Academic Search Premier (date coverage varies) This link opens in a new window
Full-text articles from over 3,600 journals in the social sciences, arts and humanities, and sciences.

Peer-reviewed articles are:

written by experts in the field
assessed for validity and scholarly rigor by other experts in the field (peer review)
published in scholarly journals